i'm soooo graceful, call me miss swan

On the first day on the job, I managed to spill a bunch of chili in the DOT kitchen. WOOOOHOOOO I'M SO GRACEFUL YOU SHOULD GIVE ME GIRL HAIR AND CALL ME KRISTI YAMAGUCHI. (no, don't do that, that would be an insult to her forrealz)

Yet, people liked me better because of it. I tried to clean up what I could of it with a bunch of napkins, and I guess people saw that and one lady came up to me afterwards and was like "you know, you're a nice man for doing that. Most people woulda just walked away."

Which lends itself to the fact that if people in government would actually clean up after their own mistakes once in a while, we wouldn't have as many issues. Hmmmmm. I WONDER WHY. Take responsibility for yourself, kiddos. Please.

Spent the day at a conference about the Air Transit Access Act. I actually thought it was quite interesting, but then again, I'm that much of a transit geek. Talking about regulations regarding codeshares was actually really cool. It's going to be interesting to see if this affects how the airline alliances do anything because I know there's some hella disparate service and hella dissent (especially from the EU airlines).

And I got my new laptop. Thank goodness. Gratuitous webcam test.

people here talk amazing

It's only been a little while since I've gotten here, but already I remember part of why I love this place. The people here crack me up.

- lady at Bed, Bath, and Beyond: "Y'all be buying these lint rollers like y'all gonna have a rolling party! Back in my day, when we had a rolling party, it wasn't with these!"
^ I will invite this woman to whatever parties I have in the future. Rolling or not.

And no, the APAICS office still doesn't have that many windows. Therefore, my amazing bosses have installed this fake window. It's kinda bad-ass. Just sayin'. It's like you're in the islands, but you're not, because you're in the ISLAND OF NON-PROFIT DOMINATION. to the maxx unlimited. The APAICS interns come in on June 9. Since I know one of them, and three of them are supposedly already cool, this should be hilar. We shall see.

My roommates and apartment kick serious ass, by the way. But I knew they would, so that's not really a surprise.